Matthew Le God

He is 30 years old and spent most of his career in Italy as an attacking midfielder. Even whilst at Saints he has played a large number of games in midfield over the last 18 months. He started this season playing wide right when Connolly was upfront, he also played out wide for Saints in League One for a large number of games. I'd say his best position is as a central attacking midfielder, but he is clearly capable of doing a very good job upfront, as he has shown this season. He is very different to Hooper, who is an out and out goal poacher playing on the shoulder of the last defender.

I'm sure he has been the guest on the Football League show at least once, possibly more since he joined Saints.

- Forte won't be here much longer - Reeves isn't a striker - De Ridder isn't really a striker - Guly Do Prado you could argue isn't really a striker Which leaves... Lambert Connolly Guly Do Prado Tadanari Lee - when he arrives Barnard - Injury and other issues

I went to the 3rd round game at St Mary's vs Sheff Utd which saw Saints run out 7-0 winners against last season's finalists. I recommend going to the 5th round vs Nottingham Forest at St Mary's next Wednesday to see the future of the club, in what should be a good and cheap evening's entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0NjRHWfB2A&feature=youtu.be Would be good to see a "big" crowd for this... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2582993,00.html Parking is free tonight at St Mary's.

Well that is a foolish thing to do!

On what do you base that?

Arsenal for Lambert! http://premierliga.net/arsenali-interesohet-per-rickie-lambert/

Beckford has scored 2 Championship goals this season compared to Lambert's 15.

Big difference between Hooper moving from one league to another, and Lambert being sold to promotion rivals having recently signed a long term deal at a financially secure club.

Time for a mod to close this nonsense.

I hope Cestrian Saint applies for any vacancies that crop up in the talent ID department at St Mary's.

Portsmouth F.C.'s new signing Kelvin Etuhu in "action"...

Impossible to police and easy to do either indirectly or directly especially if you know each other like Hooper and Adkins/Crosby do. I don't think Saints would continue their interest for this long if Adkins didn't think Hooper would be interested, I think he knows he would be. Main obstacle to this transfer happening is agreeing a fee with Celtic, not getting Hooper to want to leave.

Oppress and colonise the Scots for hundreds of years?

Jos and Celtic's Joe Ledley tweeted about it. Would seem it happened... https://twitter.com/#!/joe16led/status/159598144890474496

It is hard to believe the topic didn't come up in conversation over dinner.

I refer you to this well made point... Uprooting from Japan to the UK is a little different from putting you things in a removal van and moving from London to Southampton. I'd imagine he has a huge amount of things to sort out on top of just getting the paperwork done.

He is 6 foot 1 and only slightly shorter than Lambert (6 foot 2). Are you sure you have been watching Jordan Rhodes? http://www.htafc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10312~39589,00.html

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I want to hear the Northam sing that live on Sky next Monday vs Leicester.

That link doesn't work.

"You's" The Rab C Nesbitt video I posted earlier is clearly quite accurate.

So are Saints in a mere 3 1/2 months time.

After 26 games in the Championship last season Norwich City were 4th with 44 points, 42 goals scored GD of +8. Saints after 26 games are 1st with 50 points, 50 goals scored GD of +22. You doth complain too much Mr Dalek and make very bad comparisons. Go and watch the video I showed you again, it might cheer you up.

Glad to make you happy for once! I hope Saints will make you happy when they sign Hooper. Bit of Trivia - Craig Ferguson played Confidence in Series One of Red Dwarf episode "Confidence and Paranoia". Quite apt for this forum!